La paradoja de la Bondad : La extraña relación entre virtud y violencia en la evolución

We, Homo sapiens, can be both the nicest and the nastiest species. What happened during human evolution to explain this paradox? What are the two types of aggression to which primates are prone, and why did they evolve separately? How does the intensity of violence among humans compare with the aggressive behavior of other primates? How were humans domesticated? And how were the acquisition of language and the practice of capital punishment determining factors in the emergence of culture and civilization? Authoritative, provocative, and engaging, The Kindness Paradox offers a strikingly original theory of how, over the past 250 million years, humanity has become an increasingly peaceful species in everyday interactions, even as its capacity for devastating and coldly calculated violence remains intact. By tracing the evolutionary histories of reactive and proactive aggression, anthropologist Richard Wrangham makes a compelling and persuasive case for the need for social tolerance and the control of the savage division that still haunts us today.